Story of My Misfortunes, The (or: Historia Calamitatum)

By Abelard, Pierre

Book Id: WPLBN0002954761
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File Size: 74.05 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Story of My Misfortunes, The (or: Historia Calamitatum)
Author:	Abelard, Pierre
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Advice, Biography
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Story of My Misfortunes, The (or: Historia Calamitatum)
Historic Publication Date:	1922
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Abelard, B. P. (1922). Story of My Misfortunes, The (or: Historia Calamitatum). Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the medieval philosopher and composer, here gives a concise but vivid survey of his notoriously calamitous life. The work is couched in the form of a letter to an afflicted friend. Abelard's abrasively competitive, often arrogant personality emerges at once in the brief Foreword, where he informs his correspondent: (I)n comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily. (Summary by Martin Geeson)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Advice, Biography, Epistolary fiction, Memoirs